Not sure the American anti-public healthcare playbook being deployed here — government takeover! they want to take away your existing insurance! — is going to work here. Canadians already have experience with socialized medicine, and they overwhelmingly like and support it.

We have lost so much, including our democracy because capitalism insists that poverty is necessary for wealth creation, by John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/…

It is wild that the student protesters are being portrayed as radical for being against…the genocide and torture of children.

To oppose genocide and child torture was previously not a controversial stance. It is the default mode of being human. That innate moral instinct is now…

I’m also being made redundant from @opendemocracy after 11 years.

Solidarity with colleagues, apologies and thanks to readers and funders, mild side-eye to the bosses past & present briefing over blame; good night & good luck x

There is no compelling evidence that a Starmer govt will be any kinder to the workers of Britain who end up getting sick especially when the party has either purged or sidelined any MP who possess left wing compassion for citizens. #sicknote

The average salary for a Canadian is slightly under $66k that there is a major debate of a capital gains tax for profit exceeding 250k after you have used your 1.2 million tax free exemption is indicative that the news media is owned by the 1% as their propaganda outlet.

Stop pretending you won't get the same shit about #sicknote with a Labour govt as you will with Sunak. We are livestock and neoliberal govts are the farmers. #SunakOut

Any politician that uses a foodbank as a backdrop to sell the goodness of charity by citizens is admitting they have failed the people.

The Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation still maintains unextinguished/unmodified territorial title to more than 100,000 square kilometers in what some call Quebec. That territory is not going anywhere and will remain ours. I'm certain the other Indigenous nations feel the same #qcpoli

We have lost so much, including our democracy because capitalism insists that poverty is necessary for wealth creation, by John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/…

I’m no Roxanna but this is the case for myself and many many people I know and it’s quite depressing

Those following the science won't be surprised by this finding, but it's concerning to have this validated just as provinces move to an annual vaccination schedule.

Showcasing a new collection of work from Swansea Print Workshop printmakers with Paul Peter Piech of Coal, A Sonnet Sequence, Taliesin Create Studio
The Exhibition opens on Saturday 20 April 2024 | 1pm to 3pm
events.swansea.ac.uk/talk/index/279…

Food prices are 350% above five-year averages. Millions are displaced. Ripple effects are being felt across the region.

Nearly a year on, the conflict in #Sudan is on the verge of triggering the world's largest hunger emergency.

Tweet 3 years old still holds true.

“People hate how AI is going to destroy writers and artists,” Wellington says. “But rent increases are far more likely to.” Alissa Quart, smart as ever in Literary Hub
lithub.com/cutting-class-…

Extreme poverty just like extreme wealth makes for dysfunctional, unhappy families & individuals which generally manifests itself as narcissism in the rich & self-loathing amongst the poor.
Harry Leslie Smith excerpt from The Green & Pleasant Land unfinished at his death in 2018

✨ Some news ✨

Liberals: Your dishonest leader has put Canada in grave danger.
Polling shows PP is poised to gain power in a year, but the chances of that pending tragedy would have been muted had First Past The Post been changed years ago as Trudeau promised.

Blame yourselves when it comes.